Die stand van die Gereformeerde kerkreg

C. J. Botha
1993 Verbum et Ecclesia  
The stance of Reformed church polityThe author deals with the resistance against the study of church polity and stresses its necessity. He sketches the development in Protestant church polity, and then investigates the fact that the confessions function as the paradigm for a particular church. The problem with the reformed confessions is that they are based on sixteenth century exegesis. Consequently there is a growing rift between church polity and the Biblical disciplines. He argues for a
more » ... te on the issue of the reformulation of the reformed confessions, and that Mt 28:18-20 be the Scriptural "sitz im leben" of church polity and not 1 Cor 14:40.
doi:10.4102/ve.v14i1.1271 fatcat:2bxdvjooezhm5ke4hqjady4bgi